Why read Extreme Programming Explained?

Book cover of Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change

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"In this second edition of Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck organizes and presents five years' worth of experiences, growth, and change revolving around XP. If you are seriously interested in understanding how you and your team can start down the path of improvement with XP, you must read this book."
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2 authors picked Extreme Programming Explained as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Jan Van Ryswyck

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I keep coming back to this book for the past 20 years now. The first and second edition are two completely different books.

By reading them both, you as the reader can get a good feel about the origins and evolution of Extreme Programming during those early years. For me, both books provide the much needed foundation for a human approach towards software development.

The ideas in this book advocate for social change, while breaking with the habits of the prevalent Waterfall approach, which unfortunately is still very much alive and kicking. This book, both the first and the second…

From Jan's 3 favorite reads in 2023.

Steve Fenton

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The importance of Extreme Programming can’t be overstated.

Kent Beck created one of the few Agile methods that captured not just a process for managing work, but a set of practices that would keep your software manageable in the long run. Shortly after this book was published, the Agile Manifesto was created.

You might say, “the rest is history”, except the industry lost its way for a decade. Extreme Programming was revived in Dave Farley and Jez Humble’s Continuous Delivery – now a vital part of DevOps. The State of DevOps report has validated at least half of the Extreme…

From Steve's list on The best DevOps books from before DevOps was invented.